Northern Tree Shrew Webinar

**This webinar has been submitted for 1 hour of continuing education credit in jurisdictions which recognize RACE approval**

This talk will review recently developed, non-invasive ultrasound imaging and viral targeting techniques that promise to shed new light onto the role of hierarchical cortical circuits in tree shrew, including visual coding and object representation behaviors. 

The tree shrew represents an evolutionary intermediate between rodents and primates and is being adopted by several neuroscience research labs due to its impressive cognitive abilities and amenability to the most current molecular and genetic techniques for mechanistic neural circuit dissection. These studies will be critical for our understanding of visual, neurological, and psychiatric disorders that have a basis in cortical circuit pathology.

Due to their unique physiology, the Tree Shrew has increased in popularity in the research world. The husbandry care and breeding involved must consider their high intelligence and social behavior. This talk will also go over the overall successful colony housed at Caltech.